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CARLTON MOLETTE |
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Nationality: USA Email: n/a Website: n/a |
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BA., Morehouse College; M.A., University of Iowa; Ph.D., Florida State University in Theatre Administration. Playwright, director, designer, actor, technician, publicist, producer for over one-hundred productions in professional, educa-tional and community theatre. Writer, lecturer and consultant-playwriting, Afro-American the-atre aesthetics and theatre design and technolo-gy. Co-authored filmstrip with Barbara Molette, Stage Makeup for Black Actors, distributed by Paramount Theatrical Supplies, Alcone Co., N.Y. Recipient: Ford Foundation Scholarship, 1955- 59; Carnegie Foundation Doctoral Fellowship, 1966-68; Atlanta University Center Faculty Re-search Grant, 1970. Present position: Dean, School of Communications, Texas Southern Uni-versity. Carlton Molette is a member of Dramatist Guild of America
Plays by Carlton Molette
Booji | ||
| 1st Produced: | Spelman College, Federal City College, Texas | - - - | ||||
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| 1st Published: | I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent, where listed, at top of page. | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #45140 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
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Notes: | written by Barbara and Carlton Molette | |||||
Synopsis: | the play chronicles a black attorney's attempts to make "the system" work for black peo-ple, and the difficulties he encounters from blacks and whites alike. During the course of the play, we discover Walter's many-facete'd relationships with, among others, his wife, his law partner, a former army buddy turned radical, an evanescent socialite, and a traitor. | |||||
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Dr B S Black | ||
| 1st Produced: | Spelman College, Federal City College, Texas | - - - | ||||
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| 1st Published: | I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent, where listed, at top of page. | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #45142 | |||
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Genre: | Musical | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 5 | Female | 4 | ||
Parts other: | optional chorus | |||||
Notes: | written by Barbara and Carlton Molette | |||||
Synopsis: | Musical based very loosely on Moliere's Dr. in Spite of Himself. Black con artist is recipient of wife's revenge. He is beaten by two rural gentlemen into confessing he is a doctor of black medicine and sets out to cure Magnolia, the daughter of Chauncy White, Ill. Sidetracked at the White estate by Tilly Mae and the "sweet utensils of her trade," B. S. eventually solves the dilemma by uniting Leroy and Magnolia and sets his sights on politics. | |||||
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Legacy | ||
| 1st Produced: | Academy Theatre, 119 Center St., Avondale Estates, Ga | 10 Apr 2012 | ||||
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| 1st Published: | I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent, where listed, at top of page. | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #139117 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
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Synopsis: | Amanda Overton has never met her only niece, Justine, who was born and raised in Paris. Justine, a college freshman, visits Amanda for Christmas. Amanda, the arbiter of local society, considers Justine her legacy and vows to transform Justine into a "refined Southern lady." But Justine's arrival forces reassessments of what legacy means. | |||||
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Move The Car | ||
| 1st Produced: | Warehouse Theatre, Charlotte, N.C | 31 May 2012 | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent, where listed, at top of page. | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #140439 | |||
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Genre: | ten min play | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
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Notes: | part of the festival "Car Crazy." written by barbara and Carlton Molette | |||||
Synopsis: | A husband and wife explain to the proprietor of an auto shop why they want to refurbish a twenty-five year-old car and move it into the bedroom. | |||||
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Noah's Ark | ||
| 1st Produced: | Spelman College, Federal City College, Texas | - - - | ||||
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| 1st Published: | I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent, where listed, at top of page. | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #45143 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 3 | Female | 4 | ||
Parts other: | Noah, college professor; wife, Gladys; son, Daniel, live in the year before 1984. War rages in Africa and Daniel, a college student, is slated for induction in the army. Noah, an ardent pacifist, conducts his own private, non-violent war with the powers t | |||||
Notes: | written by Barbara and Carlton Molette | |||||
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Out of Time | ||
| 1st Produced: | Turtle Shell Theater | 21 Jan 2011 | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent, where listed, at top of page. | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #123923 | |||
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Genre: | 8 Min | |||||
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Notes: | written by Barbara and Carlton Molette. Part of 8 Minute Madness. Eighteen new provocative and engaging plays will be presented in groups A and B of 9 plays each. The plays, directed by innovative directors, are produced by a select team of New York's finest designers. Attending industry members will vote for who will win the coveted award of 8 Minute Madness Playwright of 2011. The participating audience will also vote on the best performance by an actor and best over-all show. The plays are: . . .Last and Always by Allan Baker, First Half by Ron Burch, The Intervention by Ron Burch, Last Words by Jeff Carter, The Family That Plays Together by Gigi Eng, Magnolia Day by SD Graubert, Bottom of the Ninth by Rand Higbee, The Wedding Ring by Tony Howarth, Duet in Platinum by Allston James, A Change of Plans by Dennis Jones, Mammaries by Joanne Koch, Bona Fide by Nina Mansfield, It's the Jews by John Minigan, Out of Time by Barbara and Carlton Molette, Dead Body by Barry M. Putt, Jr., Short Division by Fred Sahner, Zero Point by Jeff Schwamberger, and Slipping into Anarchy by Jeffrey Wolf. | |||||
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Rosalee Pritchett | ||
| 1st Produced: | St Mark's Playhouse, NY | 1971 | ||||
Company: | Negro Ensemble Company | |||||
| 1st Published: | Dramatists Play Service, NY, | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #45144 | |||
To Buy This Play: | If Publisher (above) is underlined then the play may be purchased by direct click from the Publisher, otherwise (below) are AbeBooks for secondhand, signed & 1st eds and other Booksellers for new copies | |||||
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Genre: | Play One Act | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 4 | Female | 5 | ||
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Notes: | written by Barbara and Carlton Molette | |||||
Synopsis: | A group of well-to-do black women are playing bridge, while discussing their coveted accomplishments in the world of white society, and expressing their contempt for the unruly ghetto blacks who make life so difficult for them. A civil disturbance is expected, and the ladies are relieved that the National Guard has been called in-until one of their number, innocently breaking the curfew, is abused and raped by the Guardsmen. Their nervous rationalization of the tragedy is a telling comment on the ladies, but even more terrible is the realization of what it implies about their achievements and social pretensions in a milieu where the ugliness of racial violence and bigotry can erupt, and exert its evil force, at any level. | |||||
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